B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"Behavior is determined by its consequences."
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Behavior
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B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent."
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior."
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences"
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior."
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"Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions."
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"A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies."
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"The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all."
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"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."
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"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
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"Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others."
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"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
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"The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change."
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"I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'."
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"The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior."
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"Always act as if you were seen."
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"A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line."
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"The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor."
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"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."
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"Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous."
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"Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface."
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"The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore."
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"When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things."
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"You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors."
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"I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior."
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